Yangjiabu woodcut New Year paintings

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures

Applicant: Weifang City, Shandong Province

Project No.: 304

Project No.: Ⅶ - 5

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shandong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Weifang City, Shandong Province

Protected by: cultural center of Hanting District, Weifang City

Introduction to Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures:

Applicant: Weifang City, Shandong Province

Yangjiabu woodcut New Year picture is a kind of folk print which is popular in Yangjiabu, Weifang City, Shandong Province. After the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the artists of Yangjiabu New Year pictures founded four art shops, namely "Hengshun", "tongshuntang", "wanzengcheng" and "Tianheyong". During the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty, Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures began to flourish, and reached its peak in Xianfeng Period. At one time, there were hundreds of painting shops and thousands of painting varieties in the local area, and there were many talented people. Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures were once sold in most of China. After 1949, the Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures, which were once depressed due to the war, were full of vitality. In 1952, 7.8 million new year woodblock pictures were printed in Yangjiabu. In 1979, the former Wei county government established the Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures Research Institute, which is specialized in mining, sorting, researching and innovating Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures.

Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures are easy to make, exquisite, colorful and rich in content. Every year, the theme of Spring Festival New Year pictures will be changed. After many new ideas and new things appear, they can be reflected in the New Year pictures immediately, which plays a certain role in promoting the progress of society. In addition, Yangjiabu woodcut New Year pictures also indirectly record the situation of Chinese dwellings and civil society life, which has a certain reference value for the study of ancient Chinese culture.